Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-Id: <199907090543.AAA29140@mercury.xraylith.wisc.edu> To: Mike Fahlbusch cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: command lines In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Jul 1999 14:53:03 +0900." <3.0.6.32.19990709145303.00846780@mail.cobweb.com.au> Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 00:43:52 -0500 From: Mumit Khan Mike Fahlbusch writes: > Mumit Khan suggested I post this request to the cygwin mailing list: > > > I've installed mingw32 and it runs ok, but it doesn't seem to handle long > > command lines very well. If I have a command line longer than 126 > > characters in dos, it chops if off. When linking, gcc complains about not > > being able to find a file because the filename is incomplete. This doesn't > > happen when I compile programs with rsxnt dj 1.5. > > Could you please post this to Cygwin mailing list in case someone can > come up with an idea to fix this (if fixable at all under windows32 > console mode)? Mike, In the meantime, I ran some simple tests by running a Mingw program from Cygwin bash shell and passed it a command line where the total length was >= 330 characters. It worked as well when I invoked the same from a makefile via Cygwin make. Are you sure it's not a function of how djgpp make is invoking "foreign" programs? Regards, Mumit -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com